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[QUOTE]Originally posted by lamin: [QB] One interesting issue in all of this is the color permutations that blacks in general have lived through ever since the first captive ship left the West African coast. From negro to colored to black and back and forth. The interesting thing is no other group has experienced this "identity angst". The African was transformed from an ethnic persona to pure biology as "negro" and "black"--post the 16th century. As a result there is a constant angst concerning this issue. Yet other identities are not as fragile. An "Arab" is an Arab regardless of whether in Asia or Africa. Same for "Jew" whether Ashkenazi or Sephardic. But the race thing enters the picture again because Falasha Jews are not seen as truly kosher in Israel. Same for Arabs. An Arabic speaking Sudanese is seen first and last as black when they travel to North Africa or the so-called Middle East. It's that 1/32--one drop rule at play. African genes were seen as so dysgenic that any trace of such would get the hypodescent punishment. That's why "passers" in the U.S. and Brazil had to avoid their darker relatives. So how to distinguish between "black" and "African". That's the ongoing issue for some. Take the President Obama's daughters who are some 25% non-African in rank genotype. Yet they would get lost in a crowd in any major African city--Dakar, Nairobi, Kano, Khartoum, etc.--but not in any major European or Asian city. Taxonomically, they are of generic African phenotype but some might not want to refer to them as "African girls". But using "black" instead of "African" reduces them to pure biology bereft of human accoutrements. The children of African migrants to the U.S., for example,are they black and African or just one of the 2 alternatives? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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